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“…Rumoured to be cut in the aftermath of one of the most sensational tours of lecture halls in the UK, ‘2001 Grands Classiques’ has now surfaced after being lost for well over a decade.

The recordings of ‘2001 Grands Classiques’ are thought to have been made during a period spent researching the effects of imbibing peculiar chemicals and sleep deprivation, likely leading to the feelings of paranoia and morbid curiosity one senses whereupon hearing it. These recordings make for an unusual listen; classical string quartets collide with bubbling analogue synthesizers whilst wild winds blow and stuttering distorted percussive sounds crash and appear to tear through the space-time continuum.

These works are a far cry from his previous appealing collection of popular ballads – they seem to be a calling, a yearning for something away, far away. And they are also, I believe, an audible milestone on his path to the eclectic din we now refer to as The Abominable Mr Tinkler…”